Author
Topic: Today is my bad day (Read 444 times)

I think it's allergies but my head feels like a bomb ready to blow up. Every noise I hear makes it feel like my head is being drilled. I am having a hard time getting enough air and my chest feels like it's being squished. I keep stretching which tells me that my muscles aren't getting the oxygen they want,and I am so sleepy and dizzy.

If I had a fever then at least I'd be satisfied that I'm just good and sick and then I would go back to bed and feel properly miserable, but no fever so I feel compelled to try to at least get through the day like a normal day but I do not feel normal at all. My anxiety is through the roof and I keep doing relaxation breathing, trying to keep it from bubbling over the top into a full-blown attack. There are all these things that I need to do later today- shopping, taking the wife to the doctor, meeting up with some people- and I'm not looking forward to any of them. I feel like it's just too much for my brain to deal with, like it's going to overload my anxiety buffer.

Ugh... ever have anxiety that you knew good and well was not something serious, but you still felt like you just couldn't handle it?

I'm having a rough day, too. Yesterday wasn't that great, either, but I thought I would be busy today, so I worked through it & got a bunch of stuff done. But my anxiety was building up last night & I thought, if I didn't have so much to do tomorrow, I'd call the doctor & make an appointment ASAP for the off balance feeling. Well, this morning my plans for the day fell through, so I called the doctor's office & spoke with a nurse, who wants me to come in. Now I'm just waiting on the office to call me back to let me know when I can get in. So my day has been very anxious! Lots of waiting, changing plans, etc. I don't feel like doing anything because my mind is so scattered. (I keep trying, though.) I think it's a combination of allergies & anxiety causing the off balance feeling, but I'm at the point where I need to rule out anything else it could be because I'm losing so much time worrying about this. It's been going on for 2 months (since my seasonal allergies kicked in), but I haven't seen a doctor about it. I think I could relax a bit about it if I knew for sure it was allergies and/or anxiety. Ugh, it sucks. I feel your pain!!! I hope you get through your day!

I think it's allergies but my head feels like a bomb ready to blow up. Every noise I hear makes it feel like my head is being drilled. I am having a hard time getting enough air and my chest feels like it's being squished. I keep stretching which tells me that my muscles aren't getting the oxygen they want,and I am so sleepy and dizzy.

I have been getting these same symptoms a LOT lately, so I feel your pain. Hope your day inproves....

Thanks; it is difficult not to feel anxious when you have these symptoms, even if you don't worry that it's some rare and serious disease. The symptoms themselves are distressing enough by themselves. I also have a sort of back-of-the-mind worry that any congestion that starts to become a cough might turn into pneumonia, and the thought of drowning in my own lung fluid terrifies me! I'm not obsessing over that right now, though; I'm just worried that I won't be able to do all the things I need to because my anxiety will prevent me from functioning.

Thanks; it is difficult not to feel anxious when you have these symptoms, even if you don't worry that it's some rare and serious disease. The symptoms themselves are distressing enough by themselves. I also have a sort of back-of-the-mind worry that any congestion that starts to become a cough might turn into pneumonia, and the thought of drowning in my own lung fluid terrifies me! I'm not obsessing over that right now, though; I'm just worried that I won't be able to do all the things I need to because my anxiety will prevent me from functioning.

Often people are unaware of lung-fluid problems as they don't happen suddenly. By the time you'd notice there would be a real problem. Remember pneumonia isn't terribly lethal either in otherwise healthy individuals.

You'll get through it. Sometimes when I'm in your situation I'll close my eyes and try focusing on the blackness of my eyelids. Gets my mind off my body. I have no idea if it will work for you, but just a suggestion.

MOST anxiety occurs on a subconscious level. JUST because you don't feel consciously anxious or had a day or two of calm doesn't mean your mind & body are relaxed. It can take months of reduced anxiety before a body goes back to a more non-reactive state

Thanks for the replis, and for the suggestion, nomnomicon. I'll give it a try.

Ha, redapples- I didn't think of that! I was curious because I actually do have a birthday this week so I was curious how they could possibly know that!

I have had bad experiences with sinus medications in the past causing heart palps, extreme grogginess, and inability to sleep, so I am reluctant to use them, but today I'm going to pick up some one-a-day type over-the-counter allergy tablets and see if they help. I'll try almost anything to make this go away. I am sure I also have a sinus headache and I just took some ibuprofen for it, hoping it helps with that and the general aching feeling as well.